"The highest good is not to be understood as an abstract, but as a concrete, as a personality."

"The most dreadful thing that can happen to a man is to become a number."

"The present age is essentially a sensible, reflecting age, which is without passion, and which therefore breaks out into no enthusiasm."

"The knight of faith is the only happy man, the heir of the finite, whereas the knight of infinite resignation is a stranger and a sojourner."

"Most men live in a world that is not their own, but one in which they have been placed by others."